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The Longview: Reflections on the ACA at 10

Jul 27, 2020

By Marianne Udow-Phillips, Founding Executive Director, Center for Health and Research Transformation This article was originally published by Findings Magazine on July 16, 2020 The framers of the Affordable Care Act—or the ACA—can be proud of...

President Obama signs the Affordable Care Act with a crowd of stakeholders

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Tannistha Datta (MPA ‘09) protects children’s rights in India

Jul 13, 2020

Since volunteering with a children’s nonprofit in high school, Tannistha Datta (MPA '09) wanted to pursue children’s rights protection work. At the Ford School, this desire was confirmed. "Through policy and international development frameworks, the...

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Research looks at COVID-19 response around the world

Jul 10, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis is affecting an unprecedented number of people at the same time. As the pandemic evolved in April and May, a group of researchers, including Ford School professor Ann Lin, undertook a survey in over a dozen locations around the...

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Congratulations to Celeste Watkins-Hayes for two ASA awards!

Jul 9, 2020

Newly-appointed Ford School collegiate professor of public policy Celeste Watkins-Hayes has received two awards from the American Sociological Association for her book Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality (2019,...

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Democracy & Debate Theme Semester launches

Jul 2, 2020

This week marks the launch of the Democracy & Debate Theme Semester, a unique opportunity for teaching and learning about free speech and the exchange of ideas, democratic engagement from a global perspective and what it means to be a member of a...

Ford School’s Paula Lantz leads amicus brief that states 3,500 COVID-19 deaths prevented by Whitmer’s actions

Jun 25, 2020

A distinguished group of Michigan public health experts has filed in several courts an Amicus Curiae brief defending Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders. Represented by lawyers from Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP in New York City, the...

“Trust in public health is essential amid COVID-19 pandemic” write Udow-Phillips and Lantz in Journal of Hospital Medicine

Jun 19, 2020

“Trust in public health is essential amid the COVID-19 pandemic,” write Marianne Udow-Phillips and Paula Lantz in a new Journal of Hospital Medicine Perspectives piece. With more than two million cases of COVID-19 in the United States to date,...

Marianne Udow-Phillips and Paula Lantz headshots

Lantz discusses COVID-19 health inequity

Jun 19, 2020

Paula Lantz, associate dean of the Ford School and James B. Hudak Professor of Health Policy, and Michael S. Barr, dean of the Ford School, discussed the emerging social epidemiology of COVID-19 and current understanding regarding public health and...

Yang leads USAID resiliency study in Mozambique

Jun 17, 2020

When Cyclone Idai struck Mozambique in March, 2019, it was the most destructive cyclone ever recorded in Africa, displacing 127,500 and affecting 1.85 million people. Beyond the initial short-term impact, medium-term food insecurity and risk of...

Four Ford School students honored with Institute for Social Research Next Generation Awards

Jun 17, 2020

Ford School students were honored by the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research’s (ISR) Next Generation Awards. The donor-funded awards propel recipients forward in their careers and catalyze impactful research projects. ISR says...

Burgard says calculating benefits of a lockdown is “ethically complex.”

Jun 12, 2020

An article written by Agence France Press June 12 and distributed to publications around the world states that “lockdowns undoubtedly prevented large numbers of deaths from the new coronavirus, [yet] the repercussions of the pandemic response are...

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Schneidewind (MPP/MBA ‘15) practices international development at home and abroad

Jun 5, 2020

Serving in Mozambique with the Peace Corps, Jimmy Schneidewind (MPP/MBA '15) became frustrated by deep-rooted, operational red tape. "You become aware of what you don’t know," said Schneidewind, recalling the information disconnect between field...

Reducing coronavirus pandemic inequities requires bold policy action, Associate Dean Lantz stresses in new paper

Jun 4, 2020

“The novel coronavirus pandemic has set in high relief the entrenched health, social, racial, political, and economic inequities within American society,” opens an article co-authored by Associate Dean Paula Lantz that appears in the Journal of...

Ethical and logistical problems raise questions about COVID-19 antibody test efficacy

May 29, 2020

As stay-at-home orders expire across the United States, a reliance on antibody testing seems to be a key element of keeping people safe and avoiding a resurgence of COVID-19. Antibody testing is being touted as a way to know whether locked-down...

High rate of Michigan nursing home deaths should trigger robust response - Udow-Phillips

May 29, 2020

One in four deaths due to COVID-19 in Michigan have been linked to long-term care residents at nursing homes, new data has indicated.Marianne Udow-Phillips, executive director of the Center for Health Research and Transformation at the University of...

Ford School Policy Talk: Hope for economic recovery tied to health success

May 22, 2020

The U.S. and global economy will only recover when major improvements in healthcare and the ability to combat the coronavirus take hold. The crisis has exacerbated inequality along racial, ethnic and economic lines. This recession is unlike any...

Ford School alum advocates to preserve reproductive rights during global pandemic

May 18, 2020

The global push for funding to fight COVID-19 has many concerned that sexual and reproductive health will suffer. Experts predict that the diversion of funds to fight COVID-19, along with some women avoiding hospitals altogether, will result in...

Public consensus on anti-COVID-19 measures risks being politicized, says Parthasarathy

May 14, 2020

Ford School professor Shobita Parthasarathy says Americans' consensus belief in the science behind anti-COVID-19 measures is at risk. In an article in Times Higher Education published May 14 entitled "Science ‘risks coronavirus backlash’ as it is...

Professor Shobita Parthasarathy leads a discussion in the Betty Ford Classroom

Healthcare sector takes a hit amidst the broader economic downturn

May 1, 2020

The news released on April 30 that the U.S. economy had shrunk 4.8 percent in the first quarter of 2020 confirmed that the country is poised to experience a deep recession. The analyses of Ford School economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers...

Wolfers challenges U.S. business who seek immunity from coronavirus lawsuits

Apr 27, 2020

In a recent article published in Quartz, “U.S. businesses are seeking immunity from coronavirus lawsuits,” Ford School professor, Justin Wolfers, pushes back on calls by U.S. businesses for COVID-19 related immunity from liability. As some states...

Ali examines rising U.S.-China tensions over COVID-19 origins

Apr 23, 2020

Blame narratives over the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic are deepening rifts between the U.S. and China, according to Javed Ali, Towsley Policymaker in Residence at the Ford School. In a co-authored op-ed featured in The Hill on April 23, Ali...

Parthasarathy’s NSF grant will investigate how politics and public trust drive coronavirus response

Apr 20, 2020

It’s becoming clear that more diagnostic testing is key for the U.S. to stop the spread of COVID-19, re-open the economy, and better manage the next epidemic. Shobita Parthasarathy, director of the Ford School of Public Policy's Science, Technology,...

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The Ford School ranks number one in social policy

Mar 17, 2020

The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan is recognized again as one of America’s top graduate programs in public affairs, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings. According to the rankings, based...

Medicaid expansion does not discourage job-seeking among the unemployed

Mar 16, 2020

Although some worry that Medicaid expansion could discourage unemployed workers from seeking employment, a University of Michigan study found that Medicaid expansion did not affect whether unemployed workers found jobs. In fact, the study found...

Lantz contributes to National Academies advisory report for "Healthy People 2030"

Feb 12, 2020

Professor Paula Lantz contributed her expertise to a recently released National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine consensus report that informed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) publication Leading Health...

Annual DC career trip fosters connections between students and alumni

Feb 11, 2020

On February 6 and 7, 2020, the Ford School held its annual DC career trip with record student attendance (55 graduate students) and alumni participation (140). A Ford School tradition, this year’s Washington, DC experience provided students with...

New BA minor opens policy education to more U-M students

Dec 10, 2019

Starting fall 2020, the Ford School will offer University of Michigan undergraduates a 16-credit minor in public policy. The minor will have a competitive application process that will go live in April 2020. The school expects to enroll around...

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An original IPPSter gives back: James Hudak’s gift establishes a named professorship in health policy

Nov 8, 2019

“I want to use my money, not to change my lifestyle, but to change the world,” says James Hudak, MPP ’71. “And I believe that education is the way.” “Most Ford School graduates work in the public sector,” Hudak continues, “and do not make a lot...

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Leiser and Mills contribute to resources for new Michigan Lead and Copper Rule

Jun 27, 2019

The Flint Water Crisis prompted the state of Michigan to adopt a new Lead and Copper Rule (LCR)—the guidelines that water utilities must follow to ensure the public’s health is protected. The most proactive LCR in the country, the University of...

Amanda Kowalski receives 2019 ASHEcon Medal

May 22, 2019

The American Society of Health Economists (ASHE) awarded Amanda Kowalski as this year’s ASHEcon Medal recipient. The ASHEcon Medal is “awarded to an economist age 40 or under who has made the most significant contributions to the field of health...